‘The Boy In The Woods’ Starring Jett Kylne And Richard Armitage Begins — AFM – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Precept pictures has begun on the WWII drama The Boy In The Woods, a big-screen adaptation of the wartime novel The Boy within the Woods: A True Story of Survival Through the Second World Struggle by Maxwell Good. 

The movie is at present capturing in North Bay, Canada. 

Rebecca Snow (Dishonest Hitler: Surviving the Holocaust) writes and directs the pic for Lumanity and JoBro Manufacturing. Myriad Footage holds worldwide rights (excluding Canada) and might be promoting the movie at AFM.

Billed as a “true-life survival story,” the movie follows Max, a Jewish boy hiding within the forests of Nazi-occupied Jap Europe throughout WWII. Max is an aspiring artist who escapes loss of life when his selfless mom tells him to run away from the Nazi vehicles which they’re about to board. He befriends a farmer, Jasko, and his household, who take him in. However with mounting strain from the police and concern for his family’s life, Jasko is pressured to show Max away. 

Struggling to outlive alone within the haunting and lethal woods of jap Europe, the synopsis continues, Max’s life adjustments when he meets one other younger Jewish boy, Janek, and collectively they embark on exceptional adventures, escaping Nazis and finally saving the lifetime of an deserted toddler.

Jett Klyne (Physician Unusual within the Multiverse of Insanity) and Richard Armitage (The Hobbit franchise) star within the lead roles of Max and Jasko, respectively. Masa Lizdek (The Ready Room) will seem as Kasia, Jasko’s spouse. David Kohlsmith (Shazam) and Christopher Heyerdahl (Peacemaker) spherical out the important thing solid as Yanek and Chief Bagan.

Robert Budreau and Jonathan Bronfman are producers, with Andrew Bronfman co-producing. Tina Good and Maxwell Good are government producers together with Patrick Patterson and Joel Reilly at Undisputed Footage. Myriad’s Kirk D’Amico and Photon’s Mark Slone are additionally government producers

Photon Movies will launch the movie in Canada. 

“Making this movie has been an immense honor and an important duty,” Snow mentioned. “Watching Jett Klyne and Richard Armitage convey these characters and this historical past to life is thrilling. The world wants to listen to these tales now greater than ever, and I’m so grateful to be part of telling this one.”